[RKDinOKC]

fThe lady that kept Pepper has 4 dogs, a Show dog, agility dog, hunting dog, and a drug dog. Her works as a trainer because her dogs have won all kinds of stuff in the respective areas.

With her normal training methods she broke Pepper of a couple of good things I've had to retrain her on. Because of the way she was rewarding her Pepper had started grabbing anything out of your hand. Any time Pepper did something she liked she gave her a treat. And I am still working on getting her talking reliably again. Had Pepper so she would go to the door and say I want out. After she got back she would just stand at the door and wait. Took a while to get her barking and just now getting here to say I want out again. And that was back the first week in November. She was also saying hello at every drive thru window. Now sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't.

The worst is Good Girl has become a release instead of a you did right praise. I like using Okay as a release and now I have to change to using Yes or something else that she is doing right and re-train her for it. erg.

Going to get her certified as a service dog so I can take her with me next time I go on vacation. Used to take my first Golden, Penny everywhere. If I can ever get Pepper to mind as well off-leash will take her everywhere too.

The other day was at a stoplight and Pepper was leaning way out the window saying hello to the girl in the car next to us. When the light turned and I started going Pepper fell out of the car. As I turned the corner to pull into the gas station to stop and get out I heard a thump. Pulled in, stopped and jumped out to go get her. As I rounded the car she came running and jumped back in as I opened the door. I think the thump was her jumping against the car to get back in. Going to have to do that police training thing of when she can and can't jump out of the car while the fear of falling out is still fresh.